ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship
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Weaponizing the law, and vague,
sweeping, harsh anti-freedomof-expression legislation️
Governments collude with
big corporations (e.g. tech
companies) to target individuals
and organisations with digital
dictatorship, putting profit over
people.
Internet shutdowns
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Surveillance, using…
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Smear Campaigns and SLAPP cases
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GPS
tracking
Surveillance
software
Artificial
Intelligence
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Pegasus
Cytrox
Circles
Cognyte
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The general population
during times of increased
uncertainty, e.g. during
the COVID-19 Pandemic
WHAT DOES
DIGITAL
DICTATORSHIP
LOOK LIKE IN
SOUTHEAST ASIA?
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Taking advantage
of marginalised
populations**
Weaponizing local culture,
norms, and dysfunctional
existing systems to perpetuate
impunity of perpetrators of
Digital Dictatorship
Targeting, silencing, and
censoring individuals and
organisations, particularly…
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Journalists
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Politicians
critiquing the
establishment
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Activists and
other HRDs**
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Rohingya peoples and
other communities
marginalised based on
race/ethnicity/religion
Women, LGBTQIA+, and
all other communities
marginalised based on
gender/queerness
**Particular attention will be paid to these
issues in our Thematic Report, in order to
amplify the issues of marginalised peoples.
Fig. A2: Symbol key for implications and issues faced by victims of Digital Dictatorship
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